3 New Tips to Help You Lose Weight
January 12th 2011 09:32
Heather K. Jones, nutrition expert and author of Good Housekeeping's Drop 5 lbs: The Small Changes, Big Results Diet, recommends these three unusual waist-slimming tactics: Tempt your taste buds with vegetable juice, have a vegetarian lunch once a week, and get a regular seafood fix.
The Fat-Fighting Fare
Here's how these small adjustments can offer big boosts in your overall weight loss results, according to Jones:
Sip vegetable juice every day.
No need to demonize juice for its calorie count. Research suggests vegetable juice may help control your appetite. In a study, people following the DASH diet lost four times as much weight in 12 weeks when they drank an 8-ounce glass of low-sodium vegetable juice each day, compared with those who ditched juice. Choose natural vegetable juice with no salt or sugar added.
Have a meatless lunch.
Research suggests this simple act could knock off 5 pounds or more in a year if you do it once a week, writes Jones. In a study, people who ate mushroom-based lunches instead of beef-based ones ate 30 fewer grams of fat the rest of the day and felt equally satisfied.
Seek protein from the sea.
A study suggests you can lose more weight on a reduced-calorie diet that includes fish rather than on a seafood-free weight loss plan. Fish packs fewer calories per ounce than beef, pork, and most skin-on poultry. And the omega-3 fats that fish contains may help stimulate fat burning in cells, researchers claim.
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